3D's max Hair Moddeling (Patreon)

Speed Modding with me
Musik: Danny Rayel - Blossoming Heart by Josuki
3D Progamm: 3D's Max 2019 /Student Version
Hairstyle: from Sims 4 to FFXIV
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If you want to follow the process better, just turn down the speed of the video and follow every little step. Anyone can mod and it doesn't take much to make such works.

3D programs:

- 3D's Max (costs)

- Blender (free)

Texture programs:

- Photoshop (costs)

- GIMP (free)

Hair making 3D Max:

1. import hair from a game 

2. convert the single parts of the hair into a mesh [Skin] (Scripting-> run script) 

3. import head (remove bones and wide parts)

4. customize hair on head (Skin, Editable Poly, Vertex... [Soft Selections])

5. import hair from textools (best 118, 119, 162 for long hair. 

long hair. For ponytail 115 or 132. twin braids 103 or 107 or at AuRa Hair 2)

6.skin warp hair from vanilla click fallof set 0 and what is below 

also zero and chop in and press on the button)

7. name hair mesh like the vanilla , then delete vanilla hair 

and then move it into the null group 

8. script resetXform

9. weights -> 

open skin

Envelope

paint weights or Weight Tool

export -> (import textures) ->Test IG

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10. plug holes...:(BackFaces)

- clone mesh -> copy> name 0.1

- Turn to mesh - under skin -> colaps to -> Surfface Properties -> flip

- ctrl+A

- turn to poly -> under skin

 colaps to -> elements -> edit elements -> flip

export

11. black shiny hair -> only for hair mashups

- editnormals

- ctrl+a

- reset

- unifybrek to ... from

- break

- unifybrek to ... on

- unify

- specify
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Import to FFXIV Texttools 

Use Normal map & Multi map textures

- Options -> Hide Backfaces!

- Hair import

click on the 4 boxes:

- Clone UV1 to UV2

- Clear UV2

- Clear Vertex Color

- Clear Vertex Alpha

"Srcipt in the appendix"
(D:\Unknown\3ds Max 2019\scripts)